OpenStack systems integrator Mirantis has closed $10m in growth capital financing from Dell Ventures, Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital.

The company helps service providers, SaaS vendors and enterprises build cloud infrastructure using the open-source OpenStack architecture and operating system.

The investment will be used to accelerate Mirantis’ growth in the OpenStack market. The privately-held company was previously financed through sales revenues.

The integrator said it would continue providing a vendor-neutral implementation of OpenStack, free of lock-in hooks or proprietary packaging.

Mirantis has recently joined Dell and Intel as founding members of the new OpenStack Foundation. Boris Renski, Mirantis co-founder and EVP, was elected to the board of the foundation.

“We believe that OpenStack is on its way to becoming a universal control plane for the entire application infrastructure fabric,” Adrian Ionel, president and CEO of Mirantis, said. “This phenomenon is transforming the industry.

“To help accelerate this transformation in a meaningful way, we need strong strategic investors like Dell Ventures, Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital.”

Mirantis says it has provided its expertise to customers in more than 30 OpenStack deployment projects in the past 18 months. Those customers include NASA, WebEx, Gap, PayPal, Internap and AT&T among others.

Elise Huang, partner at China-based WestSummit, said, “We see tremendous demand for OpenStack in the APAC market and China in particular. Beijing generates more traffic to the OpenStack.org website than any other city in the world today, and China hosts some of the largest cloud deployments in the world.

“With our investment, we aim to help Mirantis establish a stronghold in the APAC market.”

VP of Dell Cloud Nnamdi Orakwue said OpenStack was a central component of Dell’s cloud strategy. “We recently announced OpenStack as our open-source cloud platform of choice for public and private clouds.”

Mirantis has dedicated developers contributing to OpenStack Quantum LBaaS and helps run the Bay Area OpenStack user group in Silicon Valley.